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Evaluating an electricity and magnetism assessment tool: Brief electricity and magnetism assessment

Physical Review Special Topics. Physics Education Research, 2006
The Brief Electricity and Magnetism Assessment (BEMA), developed by Chabay and Sherwood, was designed to assess student understanding of basic electricity and magnetism concepts covered in college-level calculus-based introductory physics courses.
Robert Beichner, Bruce Sherwood, Ruth Chabay, Lin Ding   +3 more
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Investigating students’ seriousness during selected conceptual inventory surveys

Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2019
Conceptual inventory surveys are routinely used in education research to identify student learning needs and assess instructional practices. Students might not fully engage with these instruments because of the low stakes attached to them.
David P. Waters, Dragos Amarie, Rebecca A. Booth, Christopher Conover, Eleanor C. Sayre   +4 more
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Electricity and Magnetism [PDF]

In this two-part activity, students learn about electromagnetism by constructing electromagnets and observing their behavior. They will discover that there is a close relationship between electricity and magnetism in that moving magnets can induce ...
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Electricity, magnetism and circuits. [PDF]

BJA Educ, 2023
Tooley MA.
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PhET interactive simulation approach in teaching electricity and magnetism among science teacher education students

Journal of Science and Education, 2022
By boosting students' thinking and understanding of hard ideas, innovative teaching pedagogies help them better comprehend difficult subjects in Physics. This study aimed to assess the students’ conceptual knowledge in electricity and magnetism and their
Marshall James P. Dantic, Alyssa Fluraon   +1 more
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Phenomenographic analysis of students’ conceptual understanding of electric and magnetic interactions

Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2022
Studying students’ problem-solving abilities in physics education research has consistently shown that novices focus on a problem’s surface features rather than its physical principles.
Eder Hernandez, Esmeralda Campos, Pablo Barniol, Genaro Zavala   +3 more
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Students’ conceptual understanding of electric flux and magnetic circulation

Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2023
Electricity and magnetism are closely related phenomena with a well-known symmetry found in Maxwell equations. An essential part of any electricity and magnetism course includes the analysis of different field source distributions through Gauss’s and ...
Eder Hernandez, Esmeralda Campos, Pablo Barniol, Genaro Zavala   +3 more
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Development and Uses of Upper-division Conceptual Assessment [PDF]

, 2014
The use of validated conceptual assessments alongside more standard course exams has become standard practice for the introductory courses in many physics departments.
Baily, Charles, Caballero, Marcos D., Chasteen, Stephanie V., Pollock, Steven J., Ryan, Qing X., Sadaghiani, Homeyra, Wilcox, Bethany R.   +6 more
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Phenomenographic analysis and comparison of students’ conceptual understanding of electric and magnetic fields and the principle of superposition

Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2021
There are studies of students’ understanding of the concept of the electric field, the magnetic field, and the use of the superposition principle that have contributed to the creation of both educational strategies and assessment tools.
Esmeralda Campos, Eder Hernandez, Pablo Barniol, Genaro Zavala   +3 more
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Maxwell’s Early Unitary View of Electricity and Fluid Mechanics

Encyclopedia, 2023
In young Maxwell’s eyes, electricity, magnetism and fluid mechanics present analogies that let the first be mathematically grasped in a unitary way similarly to the latter.
Giulia Tripodi, Giuseppe Ruta
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